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James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

1865-1866

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Cast iron plaque from Queenstown Road Bridge, Battersea, London, 1865

1865

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

London & North Western Railway steam locomotive 'Pet' 0-4-0ST

1865

John Ellis

1858

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

England and her Soldiers

1859

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

Larmuth Loom

circa 1860

Silver thimble, used to pass a current through the 1866 Transatlantic cable, 1860-1866

1860-1866

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Polarized 'guillotine' relay, 1862-1866

1862-1866

Letter to The Atlantic Telegraph Company, 1859

1859

Map of England and Wales jigsaw puzzle

circa 1860

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English civil engineer, mid-19th century.

1860

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

Magneto-electrometer, 1857

1857

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

1865

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

1865-1866

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

Islay shipwreck components

1857

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

1856

Portrait Bust of Thomas Russell Crampton

1865